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Leslie Uggams
Acting
Leslie Marian Uggams (born May 25, 1943) is an American actress and singer.
Beginning her career as a child in the early 1950s, Uggams is recognized for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance. She had earlier been highly acclaimed for the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!, winning a Theatre World Award in 1967 and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968.
Known For
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Good Wife
2009
The Love Boat
1977
The Love Boat
1977
New Amsterdam
2018
Fallout
2024
Magnum, P.I.
1980
The Cosby Show
1984
Empire
2015
A Different World
1987
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
The Gilded Age
2022
Deadpool
2016
Extrapolations
2023
Deadpool 2
2018
Roots
1977
Roots
1977
The Muppet Show
1976
My Dad the Bounty Hunter
2023
Once Upon a Deadpool
2018
American Fiction
2023
Nanny
2022
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
Sugar Hill
1994
Skyjacked
1972
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962
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